Hilary Platt MSc, MBACP (Accred), UKCP Reg Psychotherapist, UKRCP, BUPA reg

Camberley Surrey GU15
01276 505382 / 07971 054859 www.hilaryplatt.co.uk Click here to Email me

Profile

I am a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and a BACP Accredited Counsellor with 11 years experience post-qualification, working in Camberley, Surrey. I offer psychotherapy to individuals and couples and work on a short or long-term basis. I aim to provide a compassionate and empathic, but down-to-earth approach to psychotherapy and counselling, which takes account of personal history and yet which can be focused and goal-oriented too.

As an integrative practitioner, I am not partisan to one particular type of therapy, working very flexibly according to need and incorporate into my practice understanding and techniques from a number of different therapies. My Humanistic stance places you as the client as 'expert in your own story and your own experience' and I draw on a number of different Humanistic therapies. At the same time, I work psychodynamically especially when dealing with relationship issues, including your relationship to yourself. I also am trained in CBT if you bring issues which are appropriate for this type of work.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

MSc and Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy 2000 from Metanoia

AEB Certificate in Counselling Skills

AEB Certificate in Counselling Theory

Certificate in Couples Counselling

CBT training

Following initial counselling training, I decided rather than continuing with a counselling diploma or BA Honours degree, I would instead undergo a full Masters degree level psychotherapy training at the Metanoia Institute in Ealing,  leading to UKCP registration. UKCP registration is perhaps less well known than BACP Accreditation, but its standards are considerably more exacting and more hours of training, clinical practice, clinical supervision and personal therapy are required - training typically takes five years.  It enables practitioners to work at a deeper level and with clients with more serious difficulties. Metanoia also required a psychiatric placement and trained course members to used diagnostics, such as the DSM IV, which I have found very useful indeed.  My training was a very positive experience and I found that my initial enthusiam and interest was nurtured and increased and I remain passionate about psychotherapy and counselling and what it can offer. I subsequently undertook the BACP Accreditation process in recognition of this being a better known ‘kitemark’ for therapists.

I have worked for many years in a variety of commercial environments and have also taught in an FE/HE college. I have undertaken voluntary work in both the NHS and education sectors and have a great deal of experience as a counsellor working within Employee Assistance Programmes seeing clients from the emergency services and NHS amongst other sectors.

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Adoption Issues
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Alcoholism
• Anger Management
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anxiety
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Bereavement
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Career Counselling
• Child Related Issues
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
• Couples Counselling
• Debt Management
• Dependent Personality Disorder
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Drug Abuse
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Family Issues
• Gambling
• Generalised Anxiety
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Infertility
• Internet Addiction
• Learning Difficulties
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Paranoid Personality Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Postnatal Depression
• Pre-nuptial Counselling
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Relationship Issues
• Schizoid Personality Disorder
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
• Seasonal Affective Disorder
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Social anxiety, social phobia and shyness

Losses other than bereavement

Therapies Offered

• Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
  - Behavioural Therapy
  - Cognitive Therapy
  - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Psychoanalytical and Psychodynamic
  - Psychodynamic Therapy

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling
  - Gestalt Therapy
  - Transactional Analysis
  - Existential Therapy

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative

Fees

£40 for a 55 minute session for individuals or couples.

Keeping my fees relatively low arises from my belief that psychotherapy and good quality counselling should be as accessible as possible to those who need it. 

I also am willing to give concessionary rates to those on Jobseekers Allowance or who are themselves training to be counsellors or psychotherapists.

Further Information

I am registered as a BUPA Mental Health Wellbeing Therapist and undertake work for insurers like Aviva and NFU Mutual, as well as seeing clients for the Army Welfare Service.

My style of therapy is very open and egalitarian. I regard therapy not only as relational, but also as an educational and collaborative experience - I am usually happy to share with you my theoretical thinking and am open about my rationale for the course of our work. I also believe that change happens outside of the consulting room as well as inside, so part of the collaboration is sometimes in designing 'homework' tasks so that you can be proactive in making changes outside of the sessions.

I do not commit you to a fixed number of sessions, but allow you to explore the issues in your own time scales and we collaborate on how to proceed at regular review points.

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